Alva Assembly of God, now known as Speak Life Fellowship, will celebrate its 85th anniversary with a special service on ...

An Alva man has been arrested on charges of domestic assault. Wiley Roy Russell, 40, has been charged with domestic assault and battery by strangulation and with domestic assault and battery in the ...

Martin Smith was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1942. As a youngster, he loved to read and decided that he wanted to become a writer of fiction when he grew up. After high school, he attended the ...

A Carmen man has been charged with assault and burglary in Woods County following a domestic incident with shots fired. According to court records, Woods County Dispatch received a report about the ...

In 2018 the City of Alva was looking into zoning and planning, an attempt to bring some order to the city's regulation of ...

The Alva FFA and 4-H Livestock Judging CDE teams attended the Big 3 Field Days contest in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The contest ...

There was lots of good food and good conversation. I saw a few people I hadn't seen since we graduated. Many thanks to the two ladies that masterminded this and everybody that helped make it a great ...

A man is facing charges in Woods County after he allegedly exposed himself to a woman in public. According to court documents, Alva police officers responded to the 600 block of Flynn in Alva for a ...

We read of a story in the Old Testament book of Jonah about how God calls him to perform what seemed to be an impossible task of preaching repentance to the capital city of the Assyrian Empire, ...

Taylor Munsell may as well have been born carrying a rope. When one is raised in the western Oklahoma hamlet of Arnett and in the Munsell clan, it’s just a way of life. “Team roping is what my ...

I think Christians do a huge disservice to people looking towards Jesus when they say things like “since I gave my life to Jesus, I’ve never had a bad day” or something like, “All my prayers have been ...

A man has been arrested after a City of Alva employee reported a suspicious person asleep in a vehicle at Flynn and Park streets. The employee, who made the report at 11 a.m. July 18, said a friend ...